MPR supposes it gets pretty difficult to talk about cyberspace and unfathomably huge memory spaces without sounding utterly abstract; any "product" beyond "Software as a Service" is nothing actually physical at all and yet somehow becomes increasingly ethereal with each passing upgrade.

Case in point: An announcement from MySpace today that has geeks (particularly assumedly those of Generation YouTube) all a-twitter online. The social network company, in some sort of partnership with Yahoo!, eBay, Photobucket and Twitter, has introduced "data availability."

If you're one of the those chumps that thought "data availability" was kinda the point of the present-day Internet, well, get adapted, dude. "Data availability," it seems, can "Empower Users To Share Their User Generated Content and Data Web-Wide."

As it turns out, "data availability" is an initiative which is also "a ground-breaking offering to empower the global MySpace community to share their public profile data to websites of their choice throughout the Internet." Now, users are "offered the opportunity to share their MySpace profiles with the site they are visiting. MySpace [and partners] will be allowing users to dynamically share the content and data of their choosing." Of course, that choosing, in classic Internet fashion is restricted to participating providers, so allowed for sharing will be basic profile information, MySpace photos, MySpaceTV videos, and friend networks.

All in all, this is all "about enriching existing Internet destinations with social functionality and valuable pre-existing user generated content and data."

Or as MySpace chief operating officer Amit Kapur put it, "The launch of Data Availability is an unprecedented move to further socialize the Web and empower users to control their online content and data."

Oh.

MPR still doesn't get it...